Cannot see main OS drive after adding raid

[supaidaaman]

I have my WD raptor installed with windows xp, hooked up to a NVraid port 1. I then hooked up the 2 other sata II drives to ports 3 and 4. I enabled NVraid in my bios and enabled all the needed sata II ports in NVraid. I set up the raid and it asked to reboot my computer and got a boot failure. I put in the xp system disk and went into xp set up, but it didnt detect any hard drives on my system. I have the forceware driver installed. Why arent they showing up?

I cant see the drives in the main bios either...Even though my OS disk in on the NVraid, i didnt include it in the RAID 0 stripe. Shouldnt i still be able to see it in my main bios?

help?

 

[Matthias99]

You may not be able to use the other ports on the "NVRAID" when it's in RAID mode unless they also have arrays on them. Does the RAID setup see the drive that has the OS on it?

 

[supaidaaman]

Yes, when i went to set up the drives for the raid it listed the 3 drives, i moved the 2 320gig drives to the raid 0, and left the preinstalled OS drive in the other section. Now it doesnt see that OS drive at all.

EDIT

In the NVraid manual i want to set up a "non bootable raid array"
"A system with a non-bootable RAID array includes a separate hard disk that contains
the OS and is not part of the RAID array." -Im pretty sure i did this..

 

[supaidaaman]

Ok! All has been fixed, i now see 2 drives in Nvraidman.

So, this is my first raid, wont it show up in my system next to the c: drive? how do i use it to store data?

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: supaidaaman
Ok! All has been fixed, i now see 2 drives in Nvraidman.

So, this is my first raid, wont it show up in my system next to the c: drive? how do i use it to store data?

You probably need to format/partition it first. Disk Management FTW. Once it's partitioned it looks just like a regular drive to Windows.

 

[supaidaaman]

EDIT:

cool, just figured it out

THANKS!! 😀